When desktop publishing entered into the mainstream, so did general awareness -- and sometimes obsession -- with typefaces. Even for those not in the design business, typeface names like Courier, Helvetica and even good ole Brush Stroke have managed to slide into our vocabulary as stealthily as Photoshop verbiage ("Those clouds look like they've been Gaussian...
Holey font
Paper and ink. When analyzing office wastefulness, this dynamic duo builds up quite a hefty list: wasted paper, dead trees and landfills steadily piled up with empty ink cartridges. On the monetary front, printer ink is one of the most expensive liquids in the world. About two-thirds of an ounce can cost you...
The Verdana Conspiracy
Verdana, a typeface specifically designed for web readability, was released with Internet Explorer 3 for the first time in 1996. Since then, it has taken over the HTML design world as the most popular font used on the web. But the digital world is not enough for this font. Recently, typophiles...